neglect her duties?

Autumn is not the season of calm; it is an upheaval in nature, and this point the fashion houses bear in mind, choosing the dress and hat that agree and match, to beat back the assaults of the storms and to defy nature and her revolts. And here one must remark that our ladies are, of all the world's women, the least fond of wearing hats, even at official parties; and this leaves not only a marked want in a woman's elegance, but touches the completeness of femininity

in her outward look, for the hat that harmonizes with the clothes lends a touch of calm and softness — and these are the dearest attributes of femininity. And so, however fashions change and shift, and however the ages advance and turn, in all their advancing and turning they never try to cheat woman of her due of elegance, nor ever attempt to draw her away from the sphere that nature has set apart for her — where taste, softness, and calm abide; where the throne of beauty rises!..